“I’m saving a bunch”: How a bureaucrat making $75,000 changed his spending habits during the pandemic
Matthew Casselman was fortunate to keep his job during the pandemic. Did quarantine force him to reconsider his spending habits?
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“I got a million new subscribers in April”: How Maddie Lymburner became YouTube’s premier pandemic fitness guru
“Suddenly, gyms were closing, people were working out at home and my business was exploding”
“I know nothing about my dad’s final moments. Was he scared? Was he in pain?”: What it’s like to lose a parent in a long-term care facility
“In the span of two hours I found out that he was in the hospital, then that he was on oxygen and, finally, that he'd died"
“Not normal is the new normal”: How does the pandemic impact mental health treatment? We asked a CAMH psychiatrist
Dr. David Gratzer has seen a lot of things during his 15-year psychiatry career. But the pandemic poses unprecedented challenges
“I can’t ask the staff to do something I won’t do myself”: When his facility had a Covid outbreak, this long-term care CEO stepped up to nurse patients himself
“The first day I went to work in the dementia ward, I wanted to throw up. I was scared shitless”
“My hair tutorial went viral overnight”: How 16-year-old Destinee Wray gets millions of people to watch her TikTok videos
“I was going down the escalator and people were screaming my name”
“Sometimes I’d start crying from the hormones, sleep deprivation and stress”: Why these new parents fled the city for rural Ontario
“One of our new neighbours heard that we needed clothes and dropped off an enormous bag filled with hand-me-downs on the front porch”
The city just released data on which Toronto neighbourhoods have the most cases of Covid-19
Eileen de Villa says the data doesn't suggest one area of the city is inherently safer than any other
“We cut the plastic shields with a paper slicer from my dad’s office”: How a 13-year-old tech whiz is 3-D printing face masks from home
“The designs are inspired by superheroes because doctors and nurses are the heroes of Covid-19”
“It will cost us about a million dollars not to operate this year”: Camp Arowhon director Joanne Kates on the devastating decision to close summer camps
“Before lockdown, we'd ordered one of those giant inflatable water toys. So that's $20,000 gone”
Zoom calls getting boring? This animal sanctuary found a solution: Buckwheat the Donkey
After Covid-19 hit, an animal sanctuary in Uxbridge needed to source donations. So they brought the farm to the people
“Suddenly I forgot all about Covid. I was just thinking about my baby”: What it’s like to have an emergency C-section during a pandemic
“As my due date approached, I coloured my hair at home. I refused to give birth with grey hairs!”
Eileen de Villa is not freaking out
How Toronto’s medical officer of health got us to flatten the curve
“It felt like they were trading one life for another”: This woman’s cancer surgery was postponed due to Covid
“I tried to accept that I didn’t have a say in whether or not I got cancer, and I didn’t have a say in whether or not I was going to be treated for cancer”
